Eimear Dunne
Postgraduate Student / Marie Curie ITN
Telephone number:
+44(0) 113 34
35612
Email address: eeemd@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 10.126
Qualifications
- MSc in High-Performance Computing (2007), Trinity College, Dublin
- BA (Mod) in Theoretical Physics (2006), Trinity College, Dublin
Project details
Project title
Cosmic Rays, Clouds, and Climate Change
Supervisors
Funding
Marie Curie Research Fellow
Start date
1st January 2009
Project outline
The purpose of the CLOUD project is to study and quantify the proposed effects of galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) on climate through the medium of atmospheric aerosol. There are two mechanisms by which GCRs are believed to drive the climate: the ion-aerosol clear-air effect and the ion-aerosol near-cloud effect. The clear-air effect deals with the formation of new particles from gases while the near-cloud effect refers to the facilitation of ice nucleation by overcharged aerosols in the boundaries of insulating clouds. I plan to investigate both of these mechanisms using the GLOMAP aerosol model.
Publications
Kirkby, J., Curtius, J., Almeida, J., Dunne, E., Duplissy, J., Ehrhart, S., Franchin, A., Gagne, S., Ickes, L., Kurten, A., Kupc, A., Metzger, A., Riccobono, F., Rondo, L., Schobesberger, S., Tsagkogeorgas, G., Wimmer, D., Amorim, A., Bianchi, F., Breitenlechner, M., David, A., Dommen, J., Downard, A., Ehn, M., Flagan, R. C., Haider, S., Hansel, A., Hauser, D., Jud, W., Junninen, H., Kreissl, F., Kvashin, A., Laaksonen, A., Lehtipalo, K., Lima, J., Lovejoy, E. R., Makhmutov, V., Mathot, S., Mikkila, J., Minginette, P., Mogo, S., Nieminen, T., Onnela, A., Pereira, P., Petaja, T., Schnitzhofer, R., Seinfeld, J. H., Sipila, M., Stozhkov, Y., Stratmann, F., Tome, A., Vanhanen, J., Viisanen, Y., Vrtala, A., Wagner, P. E., Walther, H., Weingartner, E., Wex, H., Winkler, P. M., Carslaw, K. S., Worsnop, D. R., Baltensperger, U. and Kulmala, M. [2011], “Role of sulphuric acid, ammonia and galactic cosmic rays in atmospheric aerosol nucleation”, Nature , Vol. 476, pp. 429–433.
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature10343